Sessions Says Eric Garner Case Needs More Review: Not Sure He was Murdered When White NYPD Cops Choked & Smothered Him to Death

In System of White Supremacy YOU Can be Legally Executed By White Cops Anytime, Any Public Place in Front of Witnesses & Cameras.  From [HERE] Attorney General Jeff Sessions told civil rights activists Tuesday that the Justice Department will continue to review the 2014 death of an unarmed Long Island man at the hands of police, activists said.

Advocates against public servants using unlawful force against citizens have been worried that the Justice Department, under the Trump administration, would drop its investigation into the killing of Eric Garner, who died after Daniel Pantaleo and several other white cops pounced, smothered and choked Eric Garner to death during an arrest for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes. 

In 2014, after white prosecutors assembled an all-white grand jury, they declined to file any charges against the lone officer targeted. Yes, how about that? An all white jury in NYC, the Blackest city in the country (NYC has the highest number of African Americans [MORE]. White prosecutors had over 2 million Blacks to choose from and chose none!). A fact that the white mainstream media ommitted from history. Ramsey Orta, the Latino man who recorded the main video said, “when I went to the grand jury to speak on my behalf, nobody in the grand jury was even paying attention to what I had to say,” Orta said. “People were on their phones, people were talking. I feel like they didn't give (Garner) a fair grand jury." A white man he described as a prosecutor “wasn’t even asking no questions about the police officer, he was asking all the questions towards Eric,” Orta said. “What was Eric doing there? Why was Eric there?” "It was all-white." [MORE]

The white jurors were presented with 28 eyewitnesses and had every camera angle possible - jurors saw Orta's Youtube video, NYPD video, store surveillance video and City street camera video. Their eyes filled with thoughts prevented them from seeing reality. 

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who was in a meeting Tuesday between Sessions and civil rights leaders, said the attorney general indicated the agency would press on with its review.

“A man was on video, choked to death by a police officer, after saying 11 times, ‘I can’t breathe,’” Sharpton, who heads the National Action Network, told reporters during a press conference after the meeting.

“I asked him to move forward aggressively on that case,” he added. “He said that he did not [yet] look at that case, [but] he committed to us that he would look into the Eric Garner case.”

Such a move would be welcome news to New York lawmakers, who on multiple occasions pressed Justice Department leaders under former President Obama to bring charges in the case, fearing it would be dismissed under the Trump White House.

Sharpton said he also singled out the killing of Walter Scott as another case activists are monitoring. The unarmed black man was shot as he fled a police officer in North Charleston, S.C., after being pulled over for a broken tail light in 2015.

“We want to see that go to trial and in no way [have] a backpedaling,” Sharpton said.

Sessions, a racist suspect and a former GOP senator from Alabama, met with civil rights leaders amid accusations that his track record on issues such as race relations, voting rights and criminal justice reform make him an unreliable figure in protecting the rights of minority groups. 

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Study Shows Nashville Cops Pull Over Black People Because they Are Black

From [HERE] One group claims that driving while black is a high risk activity. Taneisha Gillyard of Gideon's Army says, "In black and brown communities there's a growing distrust of the people who are supposed to serve and protect, by events such as the murder of Sandra bland, Michael brown."

Those deaths have sparked protests over unfair policing.

Activists claims the Metro Police Department is using similar tactics.

"Metro Police Officers regularly intimidate harass and unfairly exert their authority over black drivers," says, Evan Bunch of Gideon's Army.

Members of the civil rights group analyzed traffic stops between 2011 and 2015 .

Despite comprising only about 28% of Nashville drivers, black drivers make up almost 40% of all stops.

That's close to 12% more than the black driving population.

We asked drivers what they think.

"I got pulled over and they stopped and asked me for license and registration and he tells me my front light is out but I parked my car soon as they let me go. I looked, it wasn't out or anything so he was stopping me just to try and see what I was doing," says, Sylvester Gordon.

Lyft Driver, Alexis Saski says, "one of the only times I've ever been pulled over driving for Lyft is when I picked up a young black man. They pulled us over and he didn't come to my window. The officer went to the back and asked the man to put his hands up and searched his stuff."

Metro admits that 80 percent of traffic stops in 2015 resulted in warnings.

The department say officers concentrate their efforts on where crime victims are.

Police point to crime mapping which shows the prevalence of crime and requests for service.

Some Activists see it differently, and so do drivers, depending on who you ask.

Marilyn Reed says, "I haven’t experience it but from what I see on TV yeah I believe it's going on."

Gideon's Army has filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department and calling for an investigation of the report they're calling "Driving While Black."

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Feds Pay $1M in Wrongful Death Suit: A Gang of White Border Patrol Cops Handcuffed & Hogtied Latino Man & then Tased & Beat Him to Death

From [HERE] and [HERE] A federal judge last Thursday tentatively approved an agreement for the U.S. government to pay $1 million to the children of a Mexican man who died after being detained by immigration authorities and shot several times with a Taser.

The decision at a hearing Thursday in San Diego is intended to end a nearly 7-year case that prompted widespread complaints that U.S. immigration authorities tolerated agents who use excessive force. Prosecutors declined to file criminal charges.

The 42-year-old unarmed man died after a confrontation with authorities in May 2010 at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Authorities have said he was combative while being returned to Mexico.

The death attracted intense scrutiny in 2012 after an eyewitness video that aired on PBS appeared to show Hernandez being shot while lying on the ground, surrounded by about a dozen white agents. 

The tapes show a man handcuffed and surrounded by about a dozen agents, as CBP personnel administer what appear to be five Taser shocks. One officer has his knee on Anastasio’s neck; the words “quit resisting” are heard over the prone man.

The San Diego coroner’s office classified Anastasio’s death as a homicide, recording in addition to a heart attack: “several loose teeth; bruising to his chest, stomach, hips, knees, back, lips, head and eyelids; five broken ribs; and a damaged spine.”

Sixteen members of Congress wrote DHS, concerned that “this incident is part of a larger cultural problem at the Department.” Indeed, as the Arizona Republic has reported, of at least 42 CBP-involved deaths since February 2005, no CBP employee has been known to face criminal or civil charges or disciplinary action.

For the last four years, Anastasio’s family has been denied justice in two key ways: First, as far as they know there have been no criminal or civil consequences for the CBP agents involved. It’s long past time for the Department of Justice to bring appropriate criminal charges. 

Second, CBP has not yet changed its use-of-force policies – on paper or in practice. CBP has refused to release an external review it commissioned, and the ACLU has sued. The ACLU has criticized CBP’s policies for years, and we developed our own use-of-force recommendations for CBP based on best law enforcement practices.

Bored White Cops in Louisville Shoot Unarmed Black Man During Warrantless Search of House to Investigate Uncorroborated Tip

From [HERE] The Louisville (Ky.) Metro Police Department has released body-camera video showing the shooting of an unarmed black man that occurred almost immediately after a white officer shouted at him to put his hands up.

According to the Courier-Journal, Police Chief Steve Conrad said that he was reserving judgement until the completion of an internal investigation after the video was released Thursday.

The victim, 38-year-old Bruce Warrick, is currently in the hospital in critical condition after being shot in the stomach.

The incident unfolded Wednesday morning as three white officers searched an abandoned house after receiving reports about a man using drugs outside the residence before going inside. The police did not have a warrant. The police made no other investigative efforts to coroborate the report they received about drug use. 

In the video, officers are seen shouting as they walk around inside the house, identifying themselves multiple times and asking anyone there to come out with their hands up.

Eventually, Officer Sarah Stumler approaches a box spring leaning against the wall. Peeking behind the box spring, she sees a black person hiding. Stumler shouts, “Show your hands,” - a second later she is discharging her weapon. Frightended to death by his sight. 

She fires once and then is heard saying, “Shit.”

Officers guide Warrick to the floor as he doubles over in pain and place handcuffs on him. The officers wait for an ambulance, applying pressure to Warrick’s wound. Stumler can be heard saying, “You’re fine, man,” and “You’re OK, just hold on.”

Warrick had to undergo surgery to remove parts of his intestines and pancreas, activist Christopher 2X, who was speaking on behalf of Warrick’s mother and grandmother, told the Courier-Journal. 2X said that one of Warrick’s cousins has seen the footage and appreciated the disclosure, “but felt nothing he saw gave him an indication that his cousin was posing a threat to the officers in the room.”

Warrick’s family said he is homeless and was enrolled in substance-abuse classes.

Boo! Another White Cop Frightened  at the Sight of a Black Man. A lawyer for the family of Warrick said video evidence from the scene clearly shows that the white police officer who fired the shot violated department protocols for use of force and should face criminal charges.

Louisville attorney Thomas Clay said his review of the video indicates that Louisville Metro Police Officer Sarah Stumler had the safety off on her handgun and fired immediately after discovering Warrick inside a vacant home in the Russell neighborhood. The shooting appears to reinforce a troubling pattern of violence and excessive force by Louisville Metro Police officers, Clay said during a media briefing at his office on Fourth Street downtown on Sunday afternoon.

"It seems to be a problem with LMPD. The first action is to shoot ...(despite a) continuum of force" that's supposed to guide officers in such situations. It's not clear from the video that Warrick posed an imminent danger to the officers, he said. [MORE]

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Trial For Race Soldier Cop Who Murdered Philando Castile Set for May 30

From [HERE] A Minnesota police officer pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter on Monday for the fatal shooting of a black motorist that sparked outrage when the moments that followed were broadcast on social media, according to a court official.

St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez, who according to media reports is Latino, entered a not guilty plea during a hearing at the Ramsey County District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota, for the shooting death of Philando Castile, said Beau Berentson, spokesman for the state court administration office.

Castile, 32, was killed on July 6 in the St. Paul suburb of Falcon Heights during a traffic stop. The shooting, along with that of a black man by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the day before, fueled public debate in the United States over the use of excessive force by law enforcement.

Yanez's lawyer, Earl Gray, confirmed the plea but declined to comment further. A lawyer for the Castile family did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Starting about 40 seconds after the shooting, Castile's girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, streamed images of a bloody Castile on Facebook Live from the vehicle's passenger seat. The recording went viral on social media.

Yanez said he had reason to pull over the car because Castile looked like a suspect in a convenience store robbery that took place in the area four days earlier, court documents said. Castile's vehicle also had a broken brake light.

Yanez asked Castile for his license and insurance permit. Castile provided Yanez with his insurance permit and told the officer that he was carrying a firearm.

Yanez told Castile not to reach for his gun. Castile said he was not reaching for the gun before Yanez pulled his weapon and shot him seven times.

The exchange took just over a minute. Castile's permit to carry his gun was later found in his wallet.

Yanez later told investigators he feared for his life and believed Castile was reaching for his weapon, the complaint said.

Besides manslaughter, Yanez was also charged in November with two felony counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm that endangered the safety of Reynolds and her 4-year-old daughter in the car.

He pleaded not guilty to these charges as well, Gray said.

If convicted of manslaughter, Yanez could serve almost five years in prison. His trial is scheduled to begin on May 30.

[Corporate] Cops & Servant President Forcefully Evict Advocates @ Standing Rock During "Corporate Media Blackout"

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According to Dr. Blynd, Ph.F. as Resonated & Orchestrated in the "FUNKTIONARY, THE KEY HOLDERS ENPSYCHLOPEDIA": 

Corporate State - an asexual, amoral, fictionalized group-entity "created" and operated by thieves (territorial gangsters) who endeavor via illusion and coercion to enforce slavery in the guise of "civilization," form over reality, and law over humanity. 2) Enfranchised crime. 3) The "Law" of Club & Fang. 4) a Shakedown Racket. 5) "A territorial monopoly of compulsion. As soon as you grant it anything, you have given it everything." -Hans Herman Hoppe. All Corporate States are rogue states by nature. Corporate State is hierarchy institutionalized as the only acceptable and unquestionable decision-making paradigm of rule by the compelled consent of the ruled. Corporate State is created by criminals who use deadly force if you don't comply with their dictates of compelled conformance and you have no other choice than to leave and become domiciled in another similar Rogue State. "The more corrupt the State, the more numerous the laws." -Tacitus (55-117 A.D.) "The State is basically a protection racket. The fact that it incidentally provides a few beneficial services merely camouflages its essential role as enforcer of the money-commodity (sic) economy, without which most of the artificially maintained conflicts of interest that now provide a pretext for the State would lose their rationale." -Ken Knabb. With respect to taxes and taxation by the Corporate State, the lucid anarchist-activist, Kenneth Rexroth, had this to say: "The state does not tax you to provide you with services. The state taxes you to kill you. The services are something which it has kidnapped from you in your organic relations with your fellow man, to justify its police and war-making powers." (See: Formal Education, Territorial Gangsters, Hierarchy, Democracy, Crime, Stationary Bandits, Monopoly Capitalism, Cooperative Federalism, Corporation, Fascism, Granfalloon, Reification, Constitution, Declaration of Undie-Pendence, Nations, Terrorism, Taxtortion, Crimethlnc., "Credit" & Group-Entity) Corporate States - alleged fictions of law created by the International (Intergenerational) Financial Community for the purposes of furthering the exploitation of man divided against man and deadly cartoon against man.

Corporate Police State - the enforcer of the commodification of life within the Spectacle Surveillance Society. Anyone who thinks that he or she is immune to the baseless destruction of his or her life (including immediate family members) by a "government" or corporation does live in a happy menagerie—enjoy your illusions. (See: GUPI & Judicial Victimization) 

Allowed to Review Evidence Before Making a Statement, White Madison Cop Told Lies to Cover Murder of Black Teen [$3 Million Settlement]

From [HERE] In Madison, Wisconsin, attorneys for the family of an American-American teenager who was shot dead by a city police officer have reached a $3.35 million settlement. Nineteen-year-old Tony Robinson was unarmed when white officer Matt Kenny forced his way into an apartment following a "disturbance" in 2015. Kenny shot Robinson seven times in three seconds. Prosecutors declined to charge Kenny, and he was cleared by the Madison Police Department’s Internal Affairs unit. This week’s settlement is the largest ever for an officer-involved killing in Wisconsin.

The settlement came as a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney John Vaudreuil in Madison said for the first time his office is reviewing the shooting along with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice — a development welcomed by attorneys for the teen's family.

The decision to settle the case ignited a furious response from local law enforcement, who said the officer should have had the chance to defend himself in court. However, the white cop was not sued in his personal capacity. At any rate, cops rarely pay a penny of any settlement.  

The settlement will be paid for by the city's insurer. In 2015, the city of Madison reached a $2.3 million settlement with the family of a white musician killed by an officer.

Kenny previously was cleared of criminal wrongdoing by Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, a Black probot. An internal police investigation determined that he didn't violate department policies. [What is white collective power? Also, to mitigate the racial reality of Robinson's death the Milwaukee press began refering to Robinson as "bi-racial." The Journal Sentinel also has pointed out that the DA who failed to file charges also was "bi-racial" - a way of implying that racism/white supremacy is somehow not involved here b/c it is bi-racial on bi-racial. This DA works in service of white domination. The white media rarely points out the "race" of prosecutors. File that under the refinement of white supremacy; you may see this kind of scenario more often with proxymoronic Blacks placed in high places. But "Nigger" is what white cop Kenny did to Robinson when he shot him to death.]  

The lawsuit — filed against Kenny and the city — questioned the officer's version of events. 

The cops said Robinson had eaten hallucinogenic mushrooms March 6, and police said he assaulted Kenny when the officer arrived at a home on Williamson St. in Madison in response to three 911 calls. Kenny said when he exited his squad car he heard sounds of a disturbance from an upstairs apartment on Williamson St., and, believing a fight was taking place, radioed dispatch that he was going to go in. He also drew his firearm. Robinson reportedly struck Kenny on the left side of his head and knocked him to the wall, according to the Department of Justice documents, and kept coming, Kenny told investigators. Kenny then shot Robinson seven times in three seconds.

However, attorneys for Robinson said audio and video recordings of the incident "directly contradict" Kenny's version of events and establish that Kenny knew Robinson was unarmed and that Robinson was not coming toward Kenny at close range when Kenny began firing. Police audio and videotape demonstrated that Robinson posed no immediate threat to the officer or other civilians, despite Kenny's claims.

Police dispatch audio tapes, for example, record that Kenny was informed that Robinson was unarmed. And squad car video tape contradict Kenny's claim that Robinson was near him, or coming towards him, when he began firing his seven shots at the teenager.

The suit describes the deliberate method by which Kenny killed Tony without any lawful justification:

"Defendant Kenny fired a first volley of three shots, and then stopped to pick up his flashlight, which he had dropped. Defendant Kenny then took a step back and fired three more shots into Tony Robinson. Then, Defendant Kenny took another step back, raised his gun again, and fired a seventh shot."

The suit derides the standard procedure by which the City of Madison "investigates" police shootings - for example, allowing officers to re-visit the crime scene and review all available forensic evidence before making their witness statements. Despite those considerable advantages, Kenny's story still was woefully at odds with the physical evidence, but Madison exonerated him anyway.

In short, Officer Kenny lied repeatedly, and Madison authorities allowed him to get away with it.

"The City's investigation into the shooting of Tony Robinson is evidence of the City's continued deliberate indifference to the use of unconstitutional deadly force against unarmed citizens. Rather than examine the evidence, and inconsistencies between Defendant Kenny's account and the audio and video footage, the investigators accepted wholesale Defendant Kenny's inconsistent and facially implausible version of events. Indeed, the City did not even speak to Defendant Kenny in the course of its investigation. Instead, policymakers for the City publicly spoke out endorsing Defendant Kenny's actions...."

"Because of his status as a police officer, Defendant Kenny, like the City of Madison, has not been held accountable for his actions. Instead, despite the cries of a grieving community, authorities, including the City of Madison, have endorsed Defendant Kenny's actions -- an act of deliberate indifference to the senseless killing of Tony Robinson, Jr. and others at the hands of the Madison Police Department... Those actions have left a family and community irreparably harmed, and without other recourse."

The lawsuit criticized how Madison police review officer involved shootings, particularly how the officers are allowed to revisit the scene and review evidence before making their statements. It contended the city has "a policy and practice" of facilitating police officer misconduct through inadequate training, supervision, control and discipline, and even "encouraged Kenny's conduct by previously rewarding him with commendations for aggressive police tactics."

A spokesman for Kenny said he was "extraordinarily disappointed" in the settlement decision.

Jim Palmer, a white attorney representing Kenny who is also the executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, said the "city’s insurance company chose to make a business decision that was more concerned with the costs of litigation than the facts of the case." 

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Connecticut Sued After Gang of White Cops Pounced, Tased & Smothered Black Man to Death

From [HERE] The family of a delirious Bahamian doctor who died in police custody in Connecticut can bring wrongful death and medical malpractice claims against police and a hospital, a federal judge ruled.

Lashano Gilbert, a 31-year-old medical doctor from the Bahamas, arrived in the town of New London to stay with his aunt in 2014. He is said to have graduated from a medical school in Cuba and was fluent in multiple languages. He was in the process of upgrading his medical licence in Canada.

On the evening of October 3, 2014, he jumped into a woman’s car, talked “gibberish” and allegedly assaulted her, authorities said.

After his arrest Gilbert got into a physical altercation with white officers at the police station. The officers subdued, shackled, stunned and pepper-sprayed him, and wrapped a towel around his face. Through the towel Gilbert said that he couldn’t breathe.

He died in police custody, and the medical examiner reportedly ruled his death a homicide, citing the cause of death as a physical altercation “during acute psychosis complication.” A white state’s attorney found that officers’ use of force was justified. [MORE]

The 18-minute clip shows the struggle starting when Gilbert twists up his jeans in an apparent attempt to use them like a rope. When the officers tried to prepare him to go back to the hospital that had discharged him after his arrest, Gilbert lunged at them, the state’s attorney’s report said.

In the video, Gilbert jumps up on the booking desk and throws a gas canister and a breathalyzer machine at three officers that misses. The three white cops and several more white cops who come running into the room pin Gilbert on the floor for more than 10 minutes as he continues struggling in the footage. He stops moving after one of the officers used the stun gun on him, but the clip shows him clearly moving again from time to time until the paramedics arrive.

Gilbert died minutes later in a homicide from “a physical altercation including restraint, electric shock and pepper spray” and complications from his Sickle Cell Trait, the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled in January, according to the report. He suffered an “acute psychotic episode” and his blood sickled during the struggle with the officers, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. James Gill concluded. 

Gilbert family attorney Jamaal Johnson told the Day the video shows a man who was “going through some mental health issues” and didn’t receive adequate treatment. Johnson is planning a civil wrongful death lawsuit, the newspaper reported. He's examining both the hospital and the subduing officers who held Gilbert down “for a significantly long period of the time with police blocking the video,” he said.

“That’s a lot of pressure to be on Lashano for a little guy,” Johnson said. “There were not even that many people on Eric Garner and that led to his demise. The punishment for having a mental illness and needing help cannot be death." [MORE]

Gilbert’s estate sued the police and hospital, later amending the complaint to name its co-administrators, Donna Smith and Albertha Fletcher, as the plaintiffs.

The defendants moved to dismiss the case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and for the lack of an adequate medical opinion letter.

U.S. District Judge Michael Shea in Connecticut denied the motions on Tuesday, allowing the case to move forward.

“[The defendants] claim that the Estate of Lashano Gilbert lacked capacity and lacked standing, and that these defects cannot be cured by substituting the estate’s administrators,” he wrote. “I disagree: While the estate lacked capacity and was not the real party in interest, it did have standing, and substitution is warranted under Federal Rule of Procedure 17(a)(3).”

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Suit says Race Soldier San Diego Cops are Taking DNA From Black Kids w/o Parental Consent & Storing It In Unsupervised Database

From [HERE] and [HERE] A black teenager who was stopped by police last year while walking through a San Diego park is challenging the Police Department’s policies and practices for obtaining DNA from minors without first notifying a parent.

Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego & Imperial Counties filed a federal lawsuit last week on behalf of the boy and his mother, Jamie Wilson. They contend police officers violated the boy’s civil rights in March when they detained, handcuffed and searched him at Memorial Community Park in Logan Heights, and then took a sample of his DNA without a warrant or his mother’s consent.

According to the complaint, San Diego Police Department policy allows officers to obtain consent from a minor for DNA collection the same way they would for an adult.

California law restricts the collection of DNA from a juvenile for inclusion in California’s DNA database, but the lawsuit says San Diego has “sidestepped” that by maintaining its own local database. Officers are required to notify a juvenile’s parents only after a DNA sample has been taken. 

San Diego’s policy “systematically works to circumvent parents’ right to advise their kids,” said Jonathan Markovitz, one of the attorneys representing Wilson and her son.

A Police Department spokesman declined to comment about the lawsuit but provided a copy of the agency’s procedures for dealing with juveniles. The document states that a minor’s DNA can be taken and stored in the department’s own data bank if obtained legally and for investigative purposes.

The plaintiffs are seeking a permanent injunction from the court that would forbid the San Diego Police Department from enforcing the city’s policy on DNA collection from juveniles without a warrant or parental consent. They are also asking for an order compelling the Police Department to return any DNA samples from the teen identified in the lawsuit. 

They also are seeking unspecified monetary damages.

According to the lawsuit, police officers chose to conduct a pat-down search of the 16-year-old boy — identified in the document by the initials P.D. — and four of his friends not because there was a reasonable suspicion they had been involved in a crime, but because “they were black juveniles, some of whom were wearing blue, walking through a park in southeast San Diego on a particular day.”

The officers expected gang activity in the park that day, March 30, a supposed gang “holiday,” the lawsuit said. Blue is a color associated with a particular street gang.

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ACLU Lawsuit Says Milwaukee Police Target Blacks & Latinos as They Go About Their Daily Lives w/ Unconstitutional Stop & Frisk Policy

From [HERE] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Wisconsin [advocacy website] filed suit [complaint, PDF] in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Wednesday alleging that the Milwaukee Police Department [official website] discriminates against black and Latino men in its stop-and-frisk program. The complaint states that the policies of the police department violate the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the individuals affected as well as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While the ACLU maintains that the policies were adopted as part of a "broken windows" policing strategy, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn, a racist suspect in photo, rejected [statement] the claims, saying the department had "never used the practice of 'stop and frisk,'" and that there had "never been a quota system." The claim seeks injunctive relief, among other requests.

The police department targets tens of thousands of people without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, the legal requirement for a police stop. The department’s repeated violations of Milwaukeeans’ constitutional rights are driven by racial profiling, with preliminary data showing significant disparities between police stop rates for white people and for Black and Latino people.

For almost a decade, the Milwaukee Police Department has pursued an aggressive and unconstitutional policing strategy promoting large numbers of stops and frisks citywide. Between 2007 and 2015, the department almost tripled their traffic and pedestrian stops, from around 66,000 to around 196,000, following the launch of the program in 2008.

Milwaukee residents have long protested that police officers are conducting stops and frisks of innocent people, and particularly treating people of color as suspects for no good reason, stopping innocent men, women, and children as they try to go about their daily lives. The department conducts far more stops and frisks in the parts of Milwaukee that are predominantly Black or Latino than in other areas.

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